Mother And Son Sayings and Quotes

Although their relationship may change and take on different forms as they age, the bond between a mother and son is a special one. The love and nurturing from our mothers plays an important role in shaping our later years. Enjoy the wise, inspirational and humorous mother and son quotes below.

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As she was his sacrosanct mother; and he was; and would immortally remain; forever as her immortally impeccable child.

Nikhil Parekh

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Whilst I introduced myself as a hopelessly devastated and irretrievable loser in every commercial aspect of life; but nevertheless and solely as the "Son" of my unconquerably Omnipotent and eternally compassionate mother.

Nikhil Parekh

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Rajneesh

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Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers.

Rhonda Stoppe

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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Rose Kennedy

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I have a dream - a dreadful dream -A dream that is never done.I watch a man go out of his mind, and he is My Mother's Son. And no one knows when he'll get well So, there he'll have to be, and, 'spite of the beard in the looking-glass, I know that man is me!

Rudyard Kipling

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As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.

Ruth Bell Graham

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To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind.

Shannon L. Alder

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… and she loved a little boy very, very much―even more than she loved herself.

Shel Silverstein

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My son can be as open as he wants with me, but he cannot forget I am his mother and that all will not be forgiven.

Sonali Bendre

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

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There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child, you are supermom.

Stephanie Precourt

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Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Susie Orbach

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How can you, a young man understand his mother, how can you understand her thoughts, her needs and her soul?

Therese Lund

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As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Sons worship their mothers, seeing them as flawless, almighty beings who spread love and who are able to do anything. That is why the most important lesson that a mother can teach her son is to respect, love, and understand women.

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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.